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Ditch Trilogy The Ditch Trilogy refers to a trio of rock music albums by Neil Young made in the wake of his chart-topping best-seller, Harvest. The moniker derives from a quote by Young, printed in the self-penned track-by-track liner notes to his career summary compilation Decade of 1977.
Ditcham Park School Ditcham Park School is an independent, selective, co-educational school set in the secluded countryside of Hampshire, overlooking the South Downs. It has very large grounds, which adjoin several farms and forests; the main section of the school is an old country house, with a recent hi-tech Technology and Art building having been added in 2001.
Ditchley Foundation The Ditchley Foundation is a British organisation based at Ditchley House near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, which aims to promote international relations, especially Anglo-American relations, through a program of around fifteen annual conferences on matters of international interest. The foundation was incorporated in 1958 by Sir David Wills, descendant of the tobacco importing family, W.
Diti In Hinduism, Diti (Sanskrit: दिति) is an earth goddess and mother of the Maruts with Rudra. She wanted to have a son who would be more powerful than Indra (who had killed her previous children) and so she practiced magic and kept herself pregnant for one hundred years.
Ditmar Award The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award; formerly the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award") has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the "Natcon") to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction (including fantasy and horror) and science fiction fandom. The award is similar to the Hugo Award but on a national rather than international scale.
Ditmar Award results The Ditmar Award is Australia's oldest and best-known science fiction, fantasy and horror award, presented annually at the Australian "NatCon" since 1969. The historical nominations and results (listed in boldface) of the Award follow.
Ditmas Park, Brooklyn Ditmas Park is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, and is one of three Flatbush neighborhoods which have been officially designated a Historic District. Located on land that remained rural until the early 20th century, it is a suburban housing development consisting of large, free-standing Victorian homes built in the 1900s.
Dito Montiel Born July 26, 1970 in New York City, Dito Montiel came into the public eye after the breakup of his hardcore punk band Major Conflict. Later, Montiel would gain notoriety in 1989 when Geffen Records signed his newly formed outfit Gutterboy to a $1 million record deal – an unheard of sum at the time.
Ditto (convention) Ditto is a science fiction fanzine convention held annually in the autumn in North America. It is named after the ditto machine, which was commonly used to print fanzines before the advent of cheap photocopying.
Ditto (film) Ditto (동감, Donggam) (2000) is a South Korean science fiction and romance film directed by Kim Jeong-gwon. The plot of the film is similar to that of another movie released in 2000, Frequency, in that two people separated in time are somehow able to talk to each other using amateur radio.
Ditto (Pokémon) are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Ditto in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Ditto suit The ditto suit is an early precursor of the lounge suit but often had a coat more akin to a frock coat or morning coat. The fact that the waistcoat and trousers were matching made the suit more informal than those with silk faced lapels worn with formal striped trousers.
Ditton Park Ditton Park was part of the Manor of Ditton which was located in what was formerly the South West corner of Buckinghamshire, before the county boundary reorganisations of the 1974 & 1998 which moved it to the Slough Unitary Authority, which is in the ceremonial county of Berkshire.
Ditz von Shaunburg Ditz von Shaunburg was a Bavarian nobleman, sentenced to death by beheading in 1336 by King Ludwig for rebelling against him and disturbing the peace of the kingdom. When asked what his last request was, Ditz responded that he wanted his associates who were sentenced to die with him be spared if his headless body walked past them.
Diuretic A diuretic (colloquially called a water pill) is any drug or herb that elevates the rate of bodily urine excretion (diuresis). Diuretics also decrease the extracellular fluid (ECF) volume, and are primarily used to produce a negative extracellular fluid balance.
Diurnal animal A diurnal animal (dī-ŭr'nəl) is an animal that is active during the daytime and sleeps during the night. Animals that are not diurnal are either nocturnal (active at night) or crepuscular (active primarily during twilight).
Diurnal motion Diurnal motion is an astronomical term referring to the apparent daily motion of stars around the Earth, or more precisely around the two celestial poles. It is caused by the Earth's rotation on its axis, so every star apparently moves on a circle, that is called the diurnal circle.
Div (Persian mythology) A div (earlier Persian dēv, Middle Persian dēw, Avestan daēva) is an evil spirit in Persian mythology that loves to cause harm and destruction. However, some divs may be benign, actually helping the protagonist.
Div Sultan Rumlu Div Sultan Rumlu was a Persian military commander and politician from the Rumlu clan, one of the seven chief Qizilbash tribes which provided crack troops for Safavid guard. From 1524 to 1527, he was a powerful regent to Shah Tahmasp I, who was then underage.
Diva (car manufacturer) Diva was a British manufacturer of sports cars from 1961 to 1966. It was a subsidiary of the Tunex Conversions Co set up by Don Sim in Camberwell, London but in 1966 Diva Cars Limited became its registered name.
Diva (film) Diva is a 1981 film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, adapted from a novel of the same name by Daniel Odier. It is one of the first French films to let go of the realist, harsh mood of 1970s French cinema and return to a colourful, melodic style.
Diva (song) Diva (Hebrew script: דיווה) was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 performed in Hebrew by Dana International representing Israel. The music was composed by Svika Pick, and the lyrics by Yoav Ginai.
Diva Lady "Diva Lady" is a song by The Divine Comedy and is featured on their 2006 album, Victory for the Comic Muse. It was released 12 June 2006 as the lead single from that album, peaking at #52 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2006 in British music).
Divadlo v Dlouhé Divadlo v Dlouhé is a repertoire theatre with a permanent group of actors established in 1996 as a set financed by the Municipality of Prague. The group of actors comprises graduates of the Theatre Academy of Musical Arts, part of the actors have studied in the Department of Alternative and Marionette Theatre of this Academy.
Divadog Divadog is a term first originated by Montreal based artist Denise Kimball in 1995. It began as the name of one of her many hand drawn characters and came to be the registered trademark brand name under which all Denise Kimball’s many and varied darkly comic drawings live.
Divalent In chemistry, divalent anions are atoms or radicals with 2 additional electrons when compared to their elemental state (that is, with 2 more electrons than protons); for instance, S-- is the sulfide anion. Conversely, a cation is missing some electrons as compared with the neutral atom.
Divali Nagar Divali Nagar (Village of Lights) is an annual exposition of Hindu culture (broadly) and Indo-Trinidadian culture (specifically), it is associated with the celebration of Divali in Trinidad and Tobago. The exposition is staged at the Divali Nagar Site, located in the town of Chaguanas.
Divalia The Divalia was a Roman festival held on December 21, in honour of the goddess Angerona, whence it is also called Angeronalia. On the day of this festival the pontifices performed sacrifices in the temple of Voluptia, or the goddess of joy and pleasure, who, some say, was the same with Angerona, and supposed to drive away all the sorrow and chagrin of life.
Divan of the Abkhazian Kings The Divan of the Abkhazian Kings (Georgian: აფხაზთა მეფეთა დივანი, Ap’xazta mep’eta divan’i, which is often translated as the Chronicles of the Abkhazian Kings) is a short medieval document composed in Georgian in the late 10th or early 11th century. It has come down to us in a 15th-century version.
Dive bar A dive bar, or simply a dive, is a drinking establishment (or sometimes a restaurant) with a dated or run-down appearance and atmosphere. In a dive bar, the drinks tend to be cheap and of low quality, but frequently are of a high alcohol content.
Dive center Dive center is the base location where divers usually start scuba diving. It is usually a fixed location in some building near the shore equipped with diving instruments and with a compressor to fill the tanks.
Dive computer A dive computer or decompression meter is a device used by a scuba diver to measure the time and depth of a dive so that a safe ascent rate can be calculated and displayed so that the diver can avoid decompression sickness.
Dive roller coaster A dive roller coaster, known by Roller Coaster Tycoon fanatics as a vertical roller coaster, is a scream machine based prominently around a tall vertical drop of at least 100 feet in height. At the present time, only three of these roller coasters stand in the world, with a fourth one being opened at Busch Gardens Europe in Spring 2007.
Diver Propulsion Vehicle A Diver Propulsion Vehicle or a DPV is an item of diving equipment used by scuba divers to increase their range while underwater where their endurance is restricted due to limited availability of breathing gas and need to avoid decompression sickness.
Divergence In vector calculus, the divergence is an operator that measures a vector field's tendency to originate from or converge upon a given point. For instance, for a vector field that denotes the velocity of air expanding as it is heated, the divergence of the velocity field would have a positive value because the air is expanding.
Divergence (eye) In ophthalmology, divergence is the simultaneous outward movement of both eyes away each other, usually in an effort to maintain single binocular vision when viewing an object. It is a type of vergence eye movement.
Divergence theorem In vector calculus, the divergence theorem, also known as Gauss' theorem, Ostrogradsky's theorem, or Gauss-Ostrogradsky theorem is a result that relates the outward flow of a vector field on a surface to the behaviour of the vector field inside the surface.
Divergent boundary In plate tectonics, a divergent boundary (divergent fault boundary or divergent plate boundary), (but also known as a constructive boundary or an extensional boundary) is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. These areas can form in the middle of continents but eventually form ocean basins.
Diverging diamond interchange A diverging diamond interchange is a rare form of diamond interchange in which the two directions of traffic on the non-freeway road cross to the opposite side on both sides of the bridge at the freeway. It is unusual in that it requires traffic on the freeway overpass (or underpass) to briefly drive on the opposite side of the road from that which they are accustomed.
Divers hands Divers Hands is an archaic phrase used to refer to a project that has been contributed to by many different people. Divers is a word of Latin origin (diversus) that is still commonly used in modern French language; it literally means "many and varied".
Diversa Diversa is a San Diego, California-based company that specializes in industrial biotechnology and metagenomics. According to the Economist article listed in the "References" section, Diversa prospects in hot springs, ocean beds, soda lakes, and on the Arctic tundra for genes potentially useful in industry.
Diversafest LLC DFEST Diversafest LLC (DFEST) is an annual music conference and festival that takes place every July in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The music conference and festival is one that promotes and empowers emerging artists around the U.
Diversi-Dial Diversi-Dial, or DDial was an online chat server that was popular during the mid-1980s. It was a specialized type of bulletin board system that allowed all callers to send lines of text to each other in real-time, operating at 300 baud.
Diversifed Pharmaceutical Services Diversified Pharmaceutical Services entered the market in 1976 as the pharmacy benefit manager for United HealthCare (now United HealthGroup), a leading national managed care organization. Diversified pioneered many cost containment strategies that are now core PBM services and became a recognized leader in clinical programs.
Diversification (finance) Diversification in finance involves spreading investments around into many types of investments, including stocks, mutual funds, bonds, and cash. Money can also be diversified into different mutual fund investment strategies, including growth funds, balanced funds, index funds, small cap, large cap, and sector-specific funds.
Diversification of hip hop music Though women, whites and Latinos had long been a part of the hip hop scene, it was not until the 1980s that groups other than young African American males began creating popular, innovative and distinctive styles of hip hop music.
Diversified financial The diversified financial services segment includes a range of consumer and commercially-oriented companies offering a wide variety of products and services, including various lending products (such as home equity loans and credit cards), insurance, and securities and investment products. Some of these firms were created during the wave of consolidation that has taken place in the financial industry over the past decade.
Diversion airport Diversion airports are suitable airports capable of handling a particular ETOPS rated aircraft during an emergency landing and whose flying distance at the point of emergency shall not exceed the ETOPS diversion period of that particular aircraft.
Diversion colitis Diversion colitis is an inflammation of the colon which can occur as a complication of ileostomy or colostomy, often occurring within the year following the surgery. It can also occur in a neovagina created by colovaginoplasty, sometimes several years after the original procedure.
Diversions for Piano (left hand) and Orchestra Diversions for piano (left hand) and orchestra is a piece of music written by Benjamin Britten for the Viennese-born pianist Paul Wittgenstein who lost his right arm in World War I. Britten met Wittgenstein in New York in July and sketched the piece in August of 1940 at Owl's Head, Maine.
Diversity factor Diversity factor: The ratio of sum of the individual non-coincident maximum demands of various subdivisions of the system to the maximum demand of the complete system. The diversity factor is always 1 or greater.
Diversity gain In wireless communications, diversity gain is the increase in signal-to-interference ratio due to some diversity scheme, or how much the transmission power can be reduced when a diversity scheme is introduced, without a performance loss. Diversity gain is usually expressed in decibel, and sometimes as a power ratio.
Diversity index In ecology, a diversity index is a statistic which is intended to measure the biodiversity of an ecosystem. More generally, diversity indices can be used to assess the diversity of any population in which each member belongs to a unique species.
Diversity Immigrant Visa The Diversity Immigrant Visa program is a United States congressionally mandated lottery program for receiving a Green Card. It is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
Diversity jurisdiction Diversity jurisdiction is a term used in civil procedure to refer to the situation in which a United States district court has subject matter jurisdiction to hear a civil case because the parties are "diverse," meaning that they come from different states.
Diversity marketing Diversity Marketing (or in-culture marketing) is a marketing paradigm which sees marketing (and especially marketing communications) as essentially an effort in communication with diverse publics. According to the paradigm, the main focus of marketing today should be to create effective communication methods and a communication mix appropriate to each of the diverse groups active in the market.
Diversity of computer science Because of the youth of the discipline, there are many alternative definitions of computer science. Computer science can be seen either as a science, a form of mathematics, or a new discipline that cannot be categorized into pre-existing frameworks.
Diversity scheme In telecommunications, a diversity scheme refers to a method for improving the reliability of a message signal by utilizing two or more communication channels with different characteristics. Diversity plays an important role in combatting fading and co-channel interference and avoiding error bursts.
Diversity training Diversity training is training provided by an organization, usually with the stated purpose of treating diversity as an opportunity and promoting the ability of students and workers from a great variety of backgrounds to cooperate productively and make as great a contribution as possible to organizational goals.
DiversityCanada Foundation The DiversityCanada Foundation is an Ontario-based non-profit organisation that works towards creating and promoting opportunities for people, regardless of background, to participate fully in the economic, social and cultural life of Canada and beyond. A major focus of the organisation's work is producing resources to help members of traditionally under-represented groups, particularly youth, to develop employability skills and to link them with employers seeking to diversify their workforce.
Diverticulum A diverticulum (plural: diverticula) is medical term for an outpouching of a hollow (or a fluid filled) structure in the body. Its use implies that the structure is not normally present, although embryologically, some normal structures begin development as a diverticulum arising off of another structure (for example, the lungs begin as a diverticulum forming off of the ventral foregut).
Divertimento Divertimento is a music genre, with most of its examples stemming from the 18th century. The mood of the divertimento is most often lighthearted (as a result of being played at social functions) and it is generally composed for a small ensemble.
Diverting Reservoir The Diverting Reservoir (also known as Croton Falls Diverting) is a small reservoir that is located in the township of Southeast, New York, in Putnam County. The reservoir is immediately south of the village of Brewster, New York, and about 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of New York City, which the reservoir eventually gives water to.
Dives in Misericordia Dives in Misericordia (Latin for "Rich in Mercy") is the name of the second encyclical written by Pope John Paul II. It is a deeply theological examination of the role of mercy -- both God's mercy, and also the need for human mercy, introducing the biblical parable of the Prodigal Son as a central theme.
Divi-divi The Divi-divi (Caesalpinia coriaria) is a leguminous tree or large shrub native to the Antilles, southern Mexico, Central America and northern South America. It grows to 9 m tall, often much less and very contorted in exposed coastal sites.
Diviciacus (Aedui) Diviciacus or Divitiacus of the Aedui is Latinised name of the only druid from Antiquity whose existence is historically attested. He should not be confused with the king of the Suessiones, also called Diviciacus; however coins issued by the latter confirm the spelling (Gaulish written in Greek script), δειοιχυαχοϲ.
Diviciacus (Suessiones) Diviciacus or Divitiacus was a king of the Belgic nation of the Suessiones in the early 1st century BC. Julius Caesar, writing in the mid-1st century BC, says that he had within living memory been the most powerful king in Gaul, ruling a large portion not only of Gallia Belgica, but also of Britain.
Divide and conquer algorithm In computer science, divide and conquer (D&C) is an important algorithm design paradigm. It works by recursively breaking down a problem into two or more sub-problems of the same (or related) type, until these become simple enough to be solved directly.
Divide and Conquer (Teen Titans) "Divide and Conquer" is the first episode in season one of the animated TV series Teen Titans and the pilot episode of the series. It was first broadcast in the United States on August 2, 2003 and lasts for about twenty minutes.
Divide by Pi Divide by Pi is a Chicago-area duo consisting of Aaron Krister Johnson on synthesizer and Andy Hasenpflug on electronic percussion. They formed in 2003 shortly after Hasenpflug moved to Chicago, although they had known each other from 1988, since they both attended undergraduate music school together at SUNY Purchase.
Divide Creek Divide Creek is a short creek near Kicking Horse Pass on the British Columbia/Alberta border (also the border between Yoho National Park and Banff National Park). After following the Continental Divide for a short distance, the creek forks, with one side draining east to the Hudson Bay through the Bow River, and the other side draining west to the Pacific Ocean through the Kicking Horse River.
Divide-and-conquer eigenvalue algorithm Divide-and-conquer eigenvalue algorithms are a class of eigenvalue algorithms for Hermitian or real symmetric matrices that have recently (circa 1990s) become competitive in terms of stability and efficiency with more traditional algorithms such as the QR algorithm. The basic concept behind these algorithms is of course the famous divide-and-conquer approach from computer science.
Divided cities A divided city is one which, as a consequence of political changes or border shifts, presently constitutes (or once constituted) two separate entities. Listed are the localities and the state they belonged to at the time of division.
Divided City (film) 2004 sequel to writer-helmer Bruce Brown's 1998 "Streetwise (movie) (IMDB profile:)," Starring: With: Sheila Hayes](IMDB profile:), [[Kimberly Person], [[Tim Taylor, Raymond Daniels, Big G, Adrienne Renee Fairley, Mark Hyde, Jason Perkins, Walter Suarez Jr., Giovanna Williams.
Divided government In the United States, divided government describes a situation in which one party controls the White House and another party controls one or both houses of Congress. Divided government is suggested by some to be an undesirable product of the separation of powers in the United States' political system.
Divided Loyalties (Doctor Who) Divided Loyalties is a BBC Books original novel written by Gary Russell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa of Traken, Adric and the Celestial Toymaker
Dividend imputation Dividend imputation in the Australian tax system allows companies to attach franking credits to dividends paid. Those credits represent company tax already paid, and for eligible shareholders (see eligibility below) the effect is that distributed company profits are taxed just once at the shareholder's tax rate.
Dividend puzzle The dividend puzzle, which has evolved from one of Modigliani and Miller’s theorems (1959 and 1961), is directed at the irrelevance of dividends in the valuation of shares. The message here is that dividends, from the investor’s point of view, should have no effect on the process of valuing equity because the investor already owns the firm and, thus, he/she should be indifferent to either getting the dividends or having them re-invested in the firm.
Dividend reinvestment program A dividend reinvestment program or dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP) is an equity investment option offered directly from the underlying company. The investor typically does not receive quarterly dividends directly as cash.
Dividers A dividers is a tool used in nautical navigation for measuring distances on the chart. It is very similar in appearance to a drafting compass, the difference being that the compass has a spike on one end and a pencil or other drawing instrument on the other which allos the drawing of circles whereas the dividers have spikes on both ends and is used to measure distances on charts.
Dividing a circle into areas In geometry, the problem of dividing a circle into areas by means of an inscribed polygon with n sides, in such a way as to maximise the number of areas created by the edges and diagonals, has a solution by an inductive method.
Divina Trace Divina Trace (1991) is an experimental novel by Robert Antoni, and the winner of the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first novel. It tells the story of the fictional island-nation of Corpus Christi coming into its own identity.
Divine (rapper) Divine (full name Divine Allah, born Victor Damon Lombard, May 23 in Newport, Rhode Island), is an up-and-coming African-American Hip-Hop emcee/rapper (urban poet) hailing from and representing Brooklyn, New York City and Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He is often compared to, reputed and regarded as the real/official second coming of Rakim, one of the most influential emcees/rappers in Hip-Hop history, much in the same way Nas has; but also being compared to Nas as well.
Divine Adoratrice of Amun The title Divine Adoratrice of Amun can be seen as a resurgence of the title God's Wife of Amun which had fallen out of use until the 19th Dynasty, where Ramesses IV's daughter Aset held the role, as well as the additional title of Divine Adoratrice. She never married and seems to have been the first of the celibate holders of the role.
Divine Assassin In the science fiction television series Lexx, Divine Assassins are undead that carry out the will of His Divine Shadow, in adherence to a religious cult called the Divine Order. Numbering in the thousands, Divine Assassins are dead flesh, processed by the Divine Order's "Bio-Scholars" under the direct supervision of the Grand Bio-Vizier.
Divine Brown (sex worker) Divine Brown (born Estella Marie Thompson, 9 August 1969) is a Richmond, California, American prostitute who gained considerable public recognition in 1995 when Hugh Grant, a British actor, was caught receiving oral sex from her in a car on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard.
Divine Crusaders The Divine Crusaders refer to an Earth-based army of mecha and soldiers that have made appearances in the Super Robot Wars video game series. The first appearance first appearance of the Divine Crusaders was in Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation.
Divine Design (album) Divine Design is the fourth album by hip hop artist Jeru the Damaja. It is produced by Ed Dantez and Luis "Sabor" Tineo as opposed to all of Jeru's other albums which are produced by DJ Premier and Jeru himself.
Divine Divinity Divine Divinity is a single-player fantasy computer role-playing game created by Larian Studios, released in 2002. It has spawned a poorly-received spin-off, Beyond Divinity, and a rumored sequel, Divine Divinity 2.
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (film) Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1985) is a black and white documentary film about dance and possession in Haitian vodou that was shot by experimental filmmaker Maya Deren between 1947 and 1952 and edited and completed by Deren's third husband Teiji Ito and his wife Cherel Winett Ito (1947-1999) in 1981, twenty years after Deren's death. Most of the film consists of images of dancing and bodies in motion during rituals in Rada and Petro services.
Divine Chocolate Divine Chocolate Limited, formerly the Day Chocolate Company, is a manufacturer of Fairtrade chocolate products in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1998 as a partnership between the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa growers' collective and the alternative trading organization Twin Trading; other supporters included The Body Shop, Christian Aid and Comic Relief.
Divine Chocolate Company The Divine Chocolate Company is a UK based fairtrade cooperative, formed in 1997, that works to protect smallholder cocoa farmers in West Africa from market volatility. Divine chocolate is made from cocoa bought from Kuapa Kokoo, Ghana and sold in the UK, Canada, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, USA and Finland.
Divine Intervention (film) Divine Intervention () is a 2002 film by the Israeli Palestinian director Elie Suleiman, which may be described as a surreal black comedy. The film consists largely of a series of brief interconnected sketches, but for the most part records a day in the life of a Palestinian living in Nazareth, whose girlfriend lives several checkpoints away in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Divine Life Society The Divine Life Society was founded by Swami Sivananda Saraswati at Rishikesh, India in 1936. Its aim is to disseminate spiritual knowledge through publication, the arranging of conferences, by establishing training centres, etc.
Divine Liturgy The Divine Liturgy is the common term for the Eucharistic service of the Byzantine tradition of Christian liturgy. As such, it is used in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Rite Catholic Churches.
Divine Lorraine Hotel Originally built in 1894 as The Lorraine, a luxury apartment building, and later converted into the Lorraine Hotel, the building was most recently owned by the International Peace Mission, an organization founded by the civil rights activist and religious leader Father Divine. The 10-story hotel, located at Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, had 300 rooms and was intended as a model of integration and racial harmony.
Divine Mercy Sunday The Feast of the Divine Mercy or Divine Mercy Sunday falls on the Octave of Easter (the Sunday immediately following Easter), and is dedicated to the devotion to the Divine Mercy promoted by St. Faustyna Kowalska.
Divine Mind (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Divine Mind is a character class introduced in the Complete Psionic sumplement. The Divine Mind is a psionic character who chooses to serve a god using the powers of their mind.
Divine philosophy Divine philosophy is a term used most recently in the Kitab-i-Aqdas and associated with the maturity of the human race which can trace the progress back through the world's religions in history with incremental stages of progressive revelation. The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining east and west, the tie of love which blends human hearts(Abdu'l-Baha, p.
Divine Principle The Divine Principle or Exposition of the Divine Principle (in Korean, Wolli Kangron) is the main theological textbook of the Unification Church, held to have the status of scripture by believers. It follows the format of systematic theology, starting with God's purpose in creating human beings, the fall of man, and redemption - the process through history by which God is working to remove the ill effects of the fall and restore humanity back to the relationship and position that God originally intended.

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